A Taiwanese girl who is now living in Montreal writes about what she discovered and experienced in this amazing city.

04 January, 2012

About the home stay

The home stay was arranged by my school (about which I'll tell you later). They asked me to fill a wish list, and they found a home stay that matched perfectly what I wanted:

1. Whether they should have pets or kids?

No pet please. Not that I dislike them, but some are just uncontrollable.

2. How far should the home stay be from the school?

Have to be less than 30 mins. Think about it, who would like to get up early in the winter?

3. Do you have allergy to any food?

Spicy food and fish. I have a sensitive stomach and the fish... I'm too lazy to take the bone off.
4. Others? I hope the nationality of the home stay family would beFilipino or Vietnamese, so I can eat rice.

They found me a mom who doesn't like spicy food either, is Filipino, and has a husband and two kids. And it was taking exactly 30mins to get to school from my home stay.

My mom gave me a wide pink room (the largest in the house) with a huge closet. I noticed there were two single beds in the room, although she told me that I would be the only one to occupy it. While I was trying to unsuccessfully plug the cable line to connect the Internet, I suddenly felt something dark and heavy invading my heart. I couldn't even breathe. It made me depressed and homesick. When my mom told me to access the Internet with the Wi-Fi, my world became colorful immediately. Clearly I suffer from IAD (Internet Addiction Disorder).